1902 in literature
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The year 1902 in literature involved some significant new books.
Events
- January 5
- The political drama Danton's Death (Dantons Tod, completed and published in 1835) by Georg Büchner (d. 1837), receives its première, at the Belle-Alliance-Theater in Berlin in a production by the Vereins Neue Freie Volksbühne.
- First performance of George Bernard Shaw's controversial 1893 play Mrs. Warren's Profession at a private club in London.[1]
- April - Mark Twain purchases a home in Tarrytown, New York.
- June 4 - Mark Twain receives an honorary doctorate of literature degree from the University of Missouri.
- June 16 - Bertrand Russell writes to Gottlob Frege informing him of the mathematical problem that will become known as Russell's paradox.[2]
- July 1 - The Romanian language literary review Luceafărul begins publication in Budapest.
- September 9 - P. G. Wodehouse leaves his job at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company in London to become a freelance writer.
- October 5 - Thousands attend the funeral of French novelist Émile Zola at the Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris; they include Alfred Dreyfus, given special permission by Mme Zola to attend.[3]
- November 4 - J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is premièred at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh and running for an extremely successful 828 performances.
- December 18 - Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths - Scenes from Russian Life is premièred at the Moscow Arts Theatre with Konstantin Stanislavski directing and starring, his first major success.
- The Irish Literary Theatre project ends.[4]
New books
- L. Frank Baum - The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
- Edward Harold Begbie (as Caroline Lewis) - Clara in Blunderland
- Arnold Bennett
- Rhoda Broughton - Lavinia
- Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness[1]
- Marie Corelli - Temporal Power: A Study in Supremacy
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles[1]
- Paul Laurence Dunbar - The Sport of the Gods
- Hamlin Garland - The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop
- André Gide - The Immoralist
- Ellen Glasgow - The Battle-Ground
- Theodor Herzl - The Old New Land
- Violet Jacob - The Sheepstealers
- W. W. Jacobs - The Lady of the Barge (short story collection, including "The Monkey's Paw")
- Henry James - The Wings of the Dove[1]
- Alfred Jarry - Supermale
- Mary Johnston - Audrey
- Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories[1]
- Jack London - A Daughter of the Snows
- George Barr McCutcheon - Brewster's Millions
- Charles Major - Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall
- A. E. W. Mason - The Four Feathers
- W. Somerset Maugham - Mrs Craddock
- Dmitri Merejkowski - The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci
- Arthur Morrison - The Hole in the Wall
- E. Nesbit - Five Children and It
- Luigi Pirandello - Il Turno
- Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit[1]
- W. Heath Robinson - The Adventures of Uncle Lubin
- Saki - The Westminster Alice
- Percy Sykes - Ten Thousand Miles in Persia[5]
- Jules Verne - The Kip Brothers (Les Frères Kip)
- Eduard Vilde - Mahtra sõda ("The war in Mahtra")
- Edith Wharton - The Valley of Decision
- Owen Wister - The Virginian
New drama
- J. M. Barrie - The Admirable Crichton
- Maxim Gorky - The Lower Depths
- Maurice Maeterlinck - Monna Vanna
- Frank Wedekind - King Nicolo
- William Butler Yeats - Cathleen Ní Houlihan
Poetry
Main article: 1902 in poetry
- Edwin James Brady - The Earthen Floor
- Walter de la Mare (as Walter Ramal) - Songs of Childhood[6][7]
Non-fiction
- Jane Addams - Democracy and Social Ethics
- James Allen - As a Man Thinketh
- Hilaire Belloc - The Path to Rome
- Michael Fairless - The Roadmender
- John A. Hobson - Imperialism: a study[1]
- William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Bertrand Russell - A Free Man's Worship
Births
- January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist (died 1989)
- January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (died 1963)
- January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born architectural historian (died 1983)
- February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (died 1967)
- February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (died 1992)
- February 27 - John Steinbeck, US novelist and journalist (died 1968)
- March 10 - Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994)
- March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French author (died 1967)
- April 2 - Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (died 1974)
- April 6 - Julien Torma, French poet and dramatist (died 1933)
- April 9 - Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
- April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)
- July 10 - Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989)
- August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer (died 1952)
- August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (died 1974)
- August 19 - Ogden Nash, US poet and humorist (died 1971)
- October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet (died 1973)
- October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist (died 1986)
- October 31 - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)
- November 2 - Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983)
- November 29 - Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975)
Deaths
- January 7 - Wilhelm Hertz, German poet and translator, 66
- April 6 - Gleb Uspensky, Russian writer, 58
- April 20 - Frank R. Stockton, writer and humorist, 68
- May 6 - Bret Harte, author, poet, 65
- June 10 - Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet, 57
- June 18 - Samuel Butler, novelist, 66
- August 31 - Mathilde Wesendonck, German poet, 73
- September 11 - Ernst Dümmler, German historian, 72
- September 19 - Masaoka Shiki, Japanese haiku poet, 35 (Pott's disease)
- September 29
- Émile Zola, French novelist, 62 (carbon monoxide poisoning)
- William McGonagall, notoriously bad poet, 77
- October 7 - George Rawlinson, historian, 89
- October 13 - John George Bourinot, Canadian historian, 65
- October 25 - Frank Norris, novelist, 32 (peritonitis)
- November 16 - G. A. Henty, adventure novelist, 69
Awards
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ↑ Frege, Gottlob (1997). Beaney, Michael, ed. The Frege Reader. Oxford: Blackwell. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-631-19445-3.
- ↑ "Thousands March At Funeral of Emile Zola: Municipal Guards Line the Route to Preserve Order. Dreyfus Attends After All, Is Unnoticed by the Crowd -- Mme. Zola Gave Him Back His Promise to Stay Away -- Very Little Disorder". The New York Times. 6 October 1902.
- ↑ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X., ed. (1967). The Course of Irish History. Cork: Mercier Press. p. 380.
- ↑ "A History of Persia". World Digital Library. 1921. Retrieved 2013-10-01.
- ↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ↑ "A Time-Line of Poetry in English". Representative Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 28 December 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-20.
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